Privacy Policy

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to Delphi Forums. Because we
ask for some basic personal information during registration, we want you
to be fully informed of how this information is gathered and used.

Registration

Some basic personal information is required in order to register with
Delphi Forums:

Name - Your first and last name help us to personalize your
online experience. For example, your "My Forums" list of favorite online
communities may feature your first and/or last name.

Email Address - By providing your email address, you can receive
important messages via your existing email account. Message board notifications,
personalized My Forums newsletters, and messages sent to you by other
Delphi Forums members rely on the email address you provide when you
register.

User Name - This is how you are identified when you participate
in forums. While many other aspects of your account can be updated
regularly, your user name cannot be changed.

Information Delphi Forums Requests

When you register, you are asked to give demographic information (like
birth year, occupation, and gender). We ask you to tell us a little about
yourself so we can better understand the types of people who register.
This information can also be used to provide you with content that may
be of interest to you, and to show you advertisements that are relevant
to your demographic information. Delphi Forums uses outside ad companies
to display ads on its sites. These ads may contain cookies. While Delphi
Forums uses cookies in other parts of its sites, the ad companies also
use cookies with the ads displayed, and Delphi Forums may not have access
to this information.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

No children under 13 are allowed to participate in Delphi Forums.

Participation

The above describes information that is provided "actively" - meaning,
you choose to submit this information to us when you join Delphi Forums,
or update your account at any point after having joined. Some other information
is provided "passively" - meaning, that Delphi Forums obtains this information
when you login to your Delphi account and use the service. This is done
primarily through the use of "cookies."
Cookies are used on Delphi Forums to verify your login information, and
to optionally store your password in your browser so that you do not need
to type it in each time you visit. Any time that you point your browser
to a 'members-only' area, Delphi Forums checks your browser's cookie file
to see if you have already logged in, and if you have, you're taken right
to the page that you have requested. If not, you'll be directed to the
Delphi Forums login screen, where you can quickly and easily login to your
account, or signup for Delphi Forums if you are not yet a member. Cookies
are also used in conjunction with some ad banners to determine their effectiveness.

Cookies

Delphi Forums uses cookies to customize your experience while using
our services. A cookie is a small text file that many Web sites
write through your browser when you visit them. A cookie can only be
read by the site that places it, so Delphi Forums can't learn about your
browsing history based
on any other cookies in your browser. Most
browsers also allow the option of displaying a warning before accepting
a cookie, or refusing all cookies. Declining cookies while participating
in forums may result in some of features not working properly.

Advertising

Delphi Forums uses third-party advertising companies and advertising
networks to serve ads to you on our behalf when you visit our Web site.
These companies may use information about your visits to this and other
Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you (if you would like more information about this practice
and to know your choices about not having this information used by these
companies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).
Personally identifiable information such as your name, address, email
address or telephone number are not shared with advertisers without your
permission. We may use personally identifiable information in order to
fill in forms on third-party sites we use to present advertising offers.
But this information will not be shared and will not be stored by any
third parties if you decline these offers.

Delphi Forums also uses technology from VigLink to augment links to certain online merchants.
Please see the VigLink disclosure
statement for more information.

Public Forums

Delphi Forums hosts message boards, chat and other services for both
public and private forums. Please remember that any information that is
disclosed in public forums becomes public information. In addition, information
that is disclosed in private forums may be disclosed by other forum participants.
You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

Delphi Forums' site has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under its control. Delphi Forums'
servers have strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving
personal information about its users.

Termination

You can elect to terminate your membership with Delphi Forums at any
time. Simply go to your My
Preferences page, scroll down to Account Status, and click the Close Account button. Upon termination, your account information
will not necessarily be removed entirely from Delphi Forums - this
is to reserve your identity so that no one else can create a new account
with your membername or email address, and also allows you the privilege
of reactivating your account at a later date if you wish to use Delphi
Forums again. The termination of your Delphi Forums membership will not
automatically terminate any affiliated memberships or registrations you
have formed through Delphi Forums. If, after having joined a Delphi partner's
service, you wish to be removed, you should contact that service directly
to have your membership terminated.

Summary

In this electronic era, when personal information can easily
be obtained through various sources, Delphi appreciates the sensitivity
of any private information that you disclose to us. It is our intention
to treat your account information with the highest level of care.